(Mar 27, 2009) The Woman and Child Committee of the Lebanese Parliament is in the process of debating a draft law to give the children of Lebanese women married to foreigners Lebanese citizenship. However, some members of the Committee want to limit this right and exclude those who are married to Palestinians. (Granting Children of Lebanese Women Lebanese Nationality [in Arabic], AL-AKHBAR, Feb. 13, 2009, available athttp://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/118213.)

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